SO-50 Suffers 2m Interference

Amateur Radio satellite, SO-50, operating over North America, has suffered communication issues due to a terrestrial station operating on 145.850 Mhz, the same as the uplink frequency for SO-50.

The interfering station appears to be located in South-Eastern United States

As per US Band Plan, the segment between 145.800 - 146.00 MHZ is allocated for amateur satellite communication.

Interference to satellites can be caused by simplex communications, repeater links, or Echolink/IRLP nodes